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costabunny

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May 15, 2008
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So I have an XP VM (fresh install SP3). I only want to use this for CorelDraw. It does not need to do anything else.

Can someone advise me on optimising the XP install (what to remove etc) in order to get its footprint down (memory, disk and CPU) so it runs nicely and doesn't slow mac os down too much?

Its currently set as 1GB Ram single CPU on a 40GB Disk. The host is a Mac Mini 2009 2.53/4GB 640GB disk.

As I have bootcamp with my win7 for gaming, I really would like to get this VM as snappy as possible, using Fusion 2.

Thanks guys n gals
 
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